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RFID to Web Interface

This tutorial introduces a Processing interface sketch provides a GUI for the command-line interface written into the Arduino RFID example. You should read that tutorial first. The sketch shown here also allows you to upload tags it reads to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference attendee portal, and retrieves the resulting profile. The API for this was written by Edd Dumbill. The Processing sketch retrieves RFID tags from the Arduino reader serially, then  passes the tag via a HTTP request to a PHP script on a remote server, shown below,  that adds an authorized login to the O’Reilly site.

Caveat: this tutorial was written specifically for the RFID workshop at Etech 2009.  If you’re doing this on your own, the uploader won’t work because your tags won’t be associated with records in the O’Reilly database, and the PHP script that it calls probably won’t be active on my site anymore.  But you could build your own version on your own server. The PHP code that follows below gives you a start on that process, and the Processing code below can make a HTTP call to any web address you give it.

The entire sketch can be downloaded here:

rfid_uploader_0002

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Arduino-based RFID reader

This tutorial shows how to make an Arduino-based RFID reader that reads Mifare tags and stores them in EEPROM. It is a modification of Alex Zivanovic‘s code on Tinker.it. Thanks to Alex and Massimo Banzi for the reference. Once you’ve got it running, go on to the RFID to Web example, which provides a Processing interface sketch provides a GUI for the command-line interface written into the Arduino code.

The entire sketch can be downloaded here:

arduino_rfid_reader_0001

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Writing to Mifare RFID tags

Mifare RFID tags, like other RFID tags, contain a serial number that can be read using an RFID reader, but they also have a limited amount of memory space that you can write data to, and read back from.  This can be handy if you want to do something like keep a user’s account balance or name directly on the RFID tag.

This tutorial shows a number of the functions of my sonMicroReader  library for Processing, including how to write to the memory on tags.  It uses the same circuit as the SM130 reader example. The entire sketch can be downloaded here:

sonmicro_writer_0001

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Reading Mifare RFID Tags

This tutorial explains how to read from Mifare RFID tags from your computer using a Sonmicro SM130 read/write module. The sketch below is written in Processing using my SonmicroReader library. The SM130 has a TTL serial interface that you can connect to a micocontroller, or to a personal computer through a USB-to-serial interface.  Using the latter, it’s pretty simple to send serial commands to it and receive the data back. The entire Processing sketch can be downloaded here: rfid_simple_0001.

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Sonmicro RFID Reader Library for Processing

Last year, I worked with Timo Arnall and Einar Martinussen and Jørn Knutsen on a Processing library to read and write to Mifare RFID tags using the Sonmicro SM130 read/write module.  Here it is, with a few improvements and bug fixes.

SonMicroReader.zip

To use the library, unzip it and copy the folder to your Processing libraries folder.  Then restart Processing.  There are two example sketches, a simple reader that seeks new tags, and a full read/write example.

For more details, see the datasheet for the module. Code examples will follow in this blog.

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